IMF Upgrades Nigeria’s 2025 Growth Outlook to 3.4%, 3.2% for 2026
Reiterate calls for structural reforms to spur Africa’s growth Rewane: Nigeria’s economy can’t record significant growth without fixing electricity
Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Nume Ekeghe in Lagos
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Nigeria’s economic growth forecast upward, projecting
a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 3.4 per cent in 2025 and 3.2 per cent in 2026.
This comes as an economics and Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company Ltd, Bismarck
Rewane, emphasised the need for Nigeria to resolve its lingering power supply issues, saying continued
outages pose a significant threat to Continued on page 10
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Nwosu: I Was Offered 3 Ministerial Slots to Decline Use of ADC as Coalition Party NEC formally hands over party to Mark, seven INEC officials monitor meeting
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Former National Chairman of African
Democratic Congress (ADC), Ralph Nwosu, has disclosed that he was offered three ministerial slots by
persons in government to decline the use of ADC as opposition coalition platform.
The revelation emerged as National Executive Committee (NEC) of ADC formally handed over the party’s
leadership to former Senate President David Mark at a meeting, where former Osun State governor, Rauf
Aregbesola, was also pronounced Continued on page 10
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GOVERNMENT-CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT SESSION...
L-R: Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume; Kwara State Governor and Chairman, Nigeria Governors Forum, Mr. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, and Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, at the opening of a two-day interactive session on government-citizens engagement in Kaduna…yesterday